Biotechnology Laboratory Instrumentation Improvement

该学院的生物技术课程于1994年启动，是俄亥俄州唯一的两年制学位课程。生物技术专业为这一迅速发展的前沿技术的就业做好准备。除了密集的讲座/实验室课程外，专业人员还需要进行一个顶峰研究项目并参加学院国家认可的合作项目。毕业生获得应用科学副学士学位，转入4年制学位课程。对于科学（AS）转移计划的副非专业，生物技术序列满足了大学生水平的科学组成部分。该计划由工业和研究实验室科学家组成的合作委员会提供建议。 该项目通过使所有五门生物技术课程的学生能够广泛使用真核系统（酵母和昆虫细胞）以及传统的原核系统，在生物技术技术的范围内，提高了本科教学。此外，该项目显着扩大学生生物技术实验室的经验与原核和真核细胞的生长，维护和存储;离心;柱层析（凝胶过滤，离子交换，亲和）;和抗体-抗原相互作用（ELISA）。 生物技术的改进每年可以影响40个专业，50个A.S.学生和250名健康科学学生（微生物学和免疫学课程）。该项目还可以为11-12年级学生（100人/年）和教师（50人/年）举办SEM管道研讨会，并为7-12年级学生（160人/年）提高认识。

This college's Biotechnology Program, launched in 1994, is the only 2-year degree program in the state of Ohio. Biotechnology prepares majors for employment in this rapidly expanding leading-edge technology. In addition to intensive lecture/lab courses, majors are required to conduct a capstone research project and to participate in the college's nationally recognized co-op program. Graduates earn an Associate of Applied Science degree that transfers to 4-year degree programs. For nonmajors in the Associate of Science (AS) transfer program, the Biotechnology sequence fulfills the sophomore-level science component. The program is advised by a partnership committee of industry and research laboratory scientists. This project improves undergraduate instruction by enabling students in all five Biotechnology courses to work extensively with eukaryotic systems (yeast and insect cells), as well as with the traditional prokaryotic systems, across the range of biotechnology techniques. In addition, the project significantly expands student biotechnology lab experience with growth, maintenance, and storage of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; centrifugation; column chromatography (gel filtration, ion-exchange, affinity); and antibody-antigen interactions (ELISA). The Biotechnology improvements can annually affect 40 majors, 50 A.S. students, and 250 Health Sciences students (Microbiology and Immunology courses). The project can also generate SEM pipeline workshops for 11-12 graders (100/year) and teachers (50/year) and awareness for 7-12 graders (160/year).